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Cameron Poe, a highly decorated United States Army Ranger, came home to Alabama to his wife, Tricia, only to run into a few drunken regulars where Tricia works. Cameron unknowingly kills one of the drunks and is sent to a federal penitentiary for involuntary manslaughter for seven years. Cameron becomes eligible for parole and can now go home to his wife and daughter. Unfortunately, Cameron has to share a prison airplane with some of the country's most dangerous criminals, who took control of the plane and are now planning to escape the country. Cameron has to find a way to stop them while playing along. Meanwhile, United States Marshal Vincent Larkin is trying to help Cameron get free and stop the criminals, including Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom.
When Cameron Poe, of the US Army, is found guilty of manslaughter after killing a drunk man while protecting his wife outside a bar, he is sent to jail for eight years. During that time his daughter is born, but he waits patiently in his cell until his release date. He is flown home on board the Jailbird, which also transports some very dangerous convicts to a maximum-security prison in Louisiana. The convicts manage to escape directed by Cyrus "The Virus", who also leads the plane's take-over and re-routes it to an abandoned airfield to catch another plane which will take them to a foreign country. With Poe's help, the authorities learn where the convicts are headed for and manage to get there before they take off again. After the police and army are killed in an ambush at the airfield, the convicts take off again toward Las Vegas, but a US Marshal, Vince Larkin, with the help of Poe on board gets there again in time to finally stop the convicts.
I realise that Con Air is about as far from ground-breaking visionary cinema as you can get—Hell, it was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, which speaks volumes about the artistic integrity involved—but as a thrilling slice of slam-bang popcorn action fun, it works a treat. Nicolas Cage plays Cameron Poe, an honourable army ranger who is sent to a maximum-security federal penitentiary after accidentally killing a man while protecting his pregnant wife (Monica Potter). After serving eight years, Cameron is finally given parole, and scheduled to fly home on a C-123 Jailbird aircraft, along with several other prisoners whose number include evil criminal mastermind Cyrus the Virus (John Malkovich) and Poe's likable diabetic cell-mate O'Dell (Mykelti Williamson). Poe's freedom is delayed however, when Cyrus and his equally vile cohorts take over the plane by force, and O'Dell's life is placed in jeopardy... Unlike The Rock, which was an overly dramatic and rather jingoistic affair, Con Air is pure cartoonish excess from start to finish. To try and analyse the plot or apply logic to proceedings is futile, the script conveniently glossing over details as and when it suits (for example, we never learn what Cage's cell-mate O was jailed for; as a result, he becomes a sympathetic character, when the guy could have been a child killer for all we know!). Director Simon West sure isn't concerned about his film making sense, 'cos he's too busy having the time of his life inflicting maximum damage on everyone and everything in the most spectacular manner possible. In this film, the rules are 'don't just have a car crash when you can drag it behind a plane on a hook for a while before smashing it onto a runway?' and 'Don't just kill a man when you can kill him and then drop his corpse from several thousand feet onto a moving vehicle?'. It's stuff like this, coupled with a formidable cast and excellent stunts, pyrotechnics and special effects, that elevate Con Air from the ridiculous to the sublime. I give Con Air a rating of 8 delightfully ruthless maniacs out of 10, making it the second best Nicolas Cage action flick of 1997.
This rip-roaring, bombastic action adventure is a must for adrenaline-hungry fans: yet be warned, as just because a film is flashy and full of expensive-looking special effects, this doesn't make it an instant classic. While CON AIR will only ever be remembered as an exciting DIE HARD on a plane variant, it's certainly enjoyable enough with a lot of good performances from a nice cast. Taking the lead is Nicolas Cage in a departure from his usual self - here, he's long-haired, sporting muscles and a Bruce Willis vest. Sadly irritating is Cage's southern drawl which grates on the nerves every time he opens his mouth. John Malkovich plays the hissably evil Cyrus 'the Virus' who singlehandedly plans the airborne escape attempt. Malkovich has some amusing lines to himself and is fun in a comic book way, threatening without ever being frightening or disturbing. A lot of lesser yet still distinguished actors fill out those orange-and-blue uniforms, including PULP FICTION's Ving Rhames as a black writer, the ever-reliable Steve Buscemi (FARGO) on particularly creepy form as a mass murderer who enjoys a sing-song along to "He's Got the Whole World in his Hands" - a hilarious scene it has to be said. Also popping up is the evil Danny Trejo (FROM DUSK TILL DAWN) as a convict rapist. For the guys on the ground, there's a quiet, intelligent John Cusack running about and being heroic, while Colm Meaney (UNDER SIEGE) puts in a hilarious over the top performance as a pompous DEA officer who spends most of his time ranting, raving and repeatedly swearing. While most of the action is centred on the plane itself and is expectedly taught, there are precisely two smashing set pieces full of explosions and action galore. The first comes in a firefight between the convicts and the army, set in a deserted scrapyard and is an incredible scene of chaos. The second is the exciting finale which sees the grounded plane forced to land on the Las Vegas strip - and causing all manner of havoc. After this there's another extended chase between two bikes and a fire engine, before all of the main bad guys get their poetic justice. The running time of this film seems quite long as they manage to pack loads into the running time. In the style of Armageddon, there's enough quick editing to make your eyes water. The music is suitably stirring, while the non-seriousness of the film makes way for some snappy one-liners. CON AIR is generally fun viewing for an uncritical crowd, which does its job and never outstays its welcome. Fun but not very intelligent.
The saving grace of Con Air is its sense of its own absurdity.
During the fight, Billy-Joe pulls a switch-blade on Cameron. Cameron responds by striking Billy-Joe in the nose, causing him to die from blunt-force trauma to the head. When Billy-Joe's friends flee the scene, one of them grabs the switch-blade off the ground. Therefore making a self-defence case difficult to prove. As the only witness Cameron had was his wife Trisha and even she ran off to get Dale the bartender before Billy-Joe pulled the knife, therefore she didn't witness what happened. During his trial, Cameron refused to plead guilty. However, his lawyer gives him poor advice, stating that he risked getting 10 years if the case went to trial and he lost. But by admitting to it, he'd only get 4 years and serve maybe a year for good behaviour. For whatever reason, this wasn't a plea deal, but lawyer's advice. So when he plead guilty, the judge seemingly decided to make an example out of Cameron, believing that Cameron, being a former Army Ranger didn't think the normal rules of society applied to him and that he is trained to respond with deadly force, therefore making him a danger to society and therefore gave him a sentence of 7-10 years. a5c7b9f00b

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